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Status Functionality already exists
Workspace Instana
Categories Agent Alert
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 5, 2026

Introduce 24x7 alerting feature for servers being monitored by Instana

Clients at KSRSAC, DBBL, Alice Blue (IBM lost this deal), Nabil Bank have requested alerting to be made available when a server shuts down. During PoC they would intentionally shut down a server and ask the sales team, how would they know if the server goes down on its own. This request has been made for both On-Prem and SaaS deployments. 

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Máté Návay
    Aug 26, 2026

    Offline events exist to track when an infra entity goes offline. Services are meant to be distributed and is suggested to observe throughput or user impact (like error rates) instead of being "offline" which is not a trackable state of an application or service.
    Furthermore synthetic tests can be used to assess functionality and availability of a service